Mason Alexander is working with one of the most transformational technology companies of our time as they look to hire a Product and Privacy Legal Counsel.
They have in production, a new payments platform, a creator marketplace, a sports app, video streaming and artificial intelligence; which will enable billions of users to transact, do business, follow their favourite sports and watch highly personalized content all in one place.
Due to significant growth, they are looking to hire a Product & Privacy Legal Counsel. This role will require significant cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, policy, operations, and business teams, as well as other legal subject-matter experts, as you help shape the future of products used by billions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Become a deep subject-matter expert in the products you cover, building close connections with your product team through effective communication and collaboration
- Serve as the first point of contact for your product team’s legal questions, and for the broader legal team’s questions about your product
- Review new and changed products, features, platforms and initiatives to provide practical legal risk mitigation strategies across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience with drafting and reviewing Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)
- Provide and coordinate legal advice across complex and multifaceted legal issues applicable to the product you are supporting, including compliance with newly developing regulatory and legal obligations
- Enable product teams to move quickly by proactively identifying and helping to resolve areas of potential legal risk
- Support the company’s global privacy program, including support for external regulatory inquiries and audits
- Coordinate with public policy, communications, product management, engineering, product marketing, trust and safety, and other cross-functional teams on external communications, policy development, internal investigations, and product development and launches
Minimum Qualifications
- J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent)
- 8+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm or in-house experience
- Experience in one of the following areas: Litigation, regulatory, product counseling, data security, privacy and/or client counseling
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience advising clients on risk mitigation across technology product platforms
- Proven experience to distil complicated technical concepts for legal colleagues and to distil complicated legal concepts for technical colleagues
- Experience working on multiple projects at once
- Proven problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills
